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Geoffrey Parrinder
Edward Geoffrey Simons Parrinder (April 10, 1910 – June 16, 2005) — known as E.G. Parrinder or Geoffrey Parrinder — was a professor of Comparative Religion at King's College London, a Methodist minister, and the author of over 30 books on world religions. At least one, What World Religions Teach Us (1968), achieved bestseller status. He was an authority, and pioneering researcher, on West African indigenous religions.
Parrinder was born in Hertfordshire, England; he studied for Methodist ministry at Richmond College and the Faculté de Théologie Protestante in Montpellier, France.
Between 1933 and 1940 he worked as a missionary in Benin and Côte d'Ivoire, and he spent another year there after WWII. He became an authority on indigenous West African religions.
After serving in the Channel Islands and publishing his first book, he travelled to Nigeria to teach at the new University College of Ibadan, Nigeria.
In 1958 he returned to England; from then until his retirement in 1977, he taught the comparative study of religion at King's College London. Among his students there was the future Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
He was also a co-founder, secretary and president of the British Association for the History of Religions.
He traveled widely in Africa, and in India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma, Israel, Jordan and Turkey and held lecturing appointments in Australia, India and America and at Oxford.
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Geoffrey Parrinder
Edward Geoffrey Simons Parrinder (April 10, 1910 – June 16, 2005) — known as E.G. Parrinder or Geoffrey Parrinder — was a professor of Comparative Religion at King's College London, a Methodist minister, and the author of over 30 books on world religions. At least one, What World Religions Teach Us (1968), achieved bestseller status. He was an authority, and pioneering researcher, on West African indigenous religions.
Parrinder was born in Hertfordshire, England; he studied for Methodist ministry at Richmond College and the Faculté de Théologie Protestante in Montpellier, France.
Between 1933 and 1940 he worked as a missionary in Benin and Côte d'Ivoire, and he spent another year there after WWII. He became an authority on indigenous West African religions.
After serving in the Channel Islands and publishing his first book, he travelled to Nigeria to teach at the new University College of Ibadan, Nigeria.
In 1958 he returned to England; from then until his retirement in 1977, he taught the comparative study of religion at King's College London. Among his students there was the future Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
He was also a co-founder, secretary and president of the British Association for the History of Religions.
He traveled widely in Africa, and in India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma, Israel, Jordan and Turkey and held lecturing appointments in Australia, India and America and at Oxford.